Les amis de Chico

Chico the rainmaker was a great show. I was six years old when it aired & my Dad would watch it with me on Sunday mornings.The show was a great way to learn to help others and to be a good friend and be their for each other no matter what got in the way. Everyone I ask says they never heard of it. I guess that makes us the chosen ones. I live in a small town in Eastern Canada where we don't have a lot of choices where to shop. I hope to find it someday to buy. It would be great to show my kids. If they're not too busy rolling around laughing at it! Thanks for bringing back a really cool memory of me and my Dad spending some "us" time together in the big lazy boy chair. Maybe PBS will dig it out and show it again for old times sake.

I last saw this about twenty years ago as a cinema serial series, and loved every minute of it. If memory serves, a young boy discovers the enchanted head of an ancient rainmaker in a box, and as this is a talking head with magical powers, they become great friends(!). You'd think this would be the stuff of nightmares to young kids, but it's actually quite charming. Various villains see the money-making potential of the head and pursue the boy through a series of cliffhanger adventures. I also recall various spells the head could conjure up (while his eyes did a little jig), and the fact that you were invited to sing the theme song over the closing credits. Altogether now - "Chico-banna-walla - wanna make-a the rain!!!" Great stuff, I'd love to see it again!

I loved this show!

Every Saturday morning, my sisters, my brother and I would be waiting outside the Odeon Cinema for the doors to open. It only cost 30p for a good 2-3 hours entertainment. There were cartoons, Children's Film Foundation films and, of course, Chico the Rainmaker. Every time I saw that little head, I would smile. When Jill played the pan pipes and Chris played the drums, you knew Chico was about to do something magical. The story lines were straight out of the Enid Blyton school of writing, the acting was at some times funny, at others dreadful, but this show never failed to amuse and delight us.

It's almost 30 years since I last watched Chico, but I still remember the theme song after all this time. Chico will stay with me as a very happy memory of my childhood.

I saw this film as a young kid and thoroughly enjoyed it! not much else i can say but it was a long time ago at the pictures!

I Have always remembered this film even though i am 42 years old now!

lance Percival has a funny look and is suited to comedy movies even though i have mostly seen

him on chat shows of the like!

On the carry on films, he was quite funny, strange as it may seem , i always remembered him for the roll in this film, and the name was different at the pictures!

It was in fact called Chico

Me and my sister can still sing the theme tune never forgot it. Used to watch this at the Saturday morning pictures.

Cannot remember in detail too much more but remember Chico with eyes that moved and just his head in the box talking and the children. Would be good to see this again its been years. Great memories of childhood in the 70s, is this out on DVD in the UK English version? Also not sure if anyone else remembers at the same time the show regarding the alien dragon with the space ship which was invisible and the start of the pictures with all the pigeons in London flying around the fountain.

Bring all these shows back.